Boonsboro Reflections: Boonsboro’s Christmas Past

Leisure time for the approximately 860 citizens of Boonsboro was practically nonexistent in 1879, but Christmas was celebrated with gift-giving, extravagant dinners and Christmas “exercises” at the town’s houses of worship.   The Civil War, understandably, intensified...

Boonsboro Reflections: Short Hill Cemetery

Many of Boonsboro’s buildings and landmarks of the Civil War era have vanished with the relentless pressure of time, weather and human action. For example, the community that arose around the Roxbury distillery is gone, but for a few walls of the old hotel that are...

Pass It On Photo Scanning

Search those attics, basements and old photo albums! On October 15th from 1 to 5pm, the Boonsboro Historical Society will host a Pass It On event to scan in old photos or documents from Boonsboro residents.   We want to preserve them before they are lost or damaged...

225th – Heck Brother’s Play

The true story of “Brothers at Arms”, a two-act play by The Barbara Ingram School for the Arts depicting the reunion of Boonsboro’s Heck brothers who fought on opposite sides in the Civil War.  Sept 16 & 17th.  RSVP today!